Initiatives & Achievements

Corporate Clients

According to an article in the Financial Times, based on information from a Dealogic survey, we ranked fifth in terms of share of the global fee pool in 2004 with a market share of 5.3%, up from sixth place with a market share of 5.0% a year earlier¹.

Institutional Clients

We maintained our first place in the global ranking for secondary equity cash commissions for an eleventh consecutive quarter, according to data from a leading industry survey.

We also received a number of prestigious awards this quarter. In International Financing Review’s review of 2004, UBS was named “European Equity House of the Year”.

FX Week, a benchmark industry survey, ranked UBS as the top-ranked bank in foreign exchange for the second year running in their annual poll.

Risk, a magazine, named us “Currency Derivatives House of the Year”. In giving us the award, it said: “From corporate advisory work to providing the online tools needed to trade in the options market, UBS is at the cutting edge of foreign exchange derivatives.” The magazine also gave us the “Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year” award.

UBS won a series of accolades for the quality and independence of its research in Global Investor’s recent global brokers survey, moving up one place to take the top spot for most useful research in the US. This was further reinforced by the excellent performance in Institutional Investor’s All-America research ranking, where we moved to third place from fifth last year. UBS is now the only firm ranked in the top three for equity research in every region. The survey also placed us second in US institutional sales and trading, up from third in 2003.

Our continued focus on the Asia Pacific region also brought us significant recognition. The Asset, an Asian magazine, named us the “Best Equity House” for 2004 in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and South Korea, and “Best Debt House” for China, South Korea and the Philippines.

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